So I am building some Lab VMs on my windows 10 workstation. This creates a machine with a configuration version of 7.0. If I want to move that VM to Server 2012 R2 it needs to be configuration version 5.0. Seems there is no way to go backwards.
Just to be clear I am not talking about machine generation that is selectable at initial creation.
Is there a way to specify configuration version to ensure compatibility with Server 2012 R2?
Does the configuration version have any effect on the VHD/VHDX?